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Managers · code 1412

Restaurant managers

Restaurant managers plan, organize and direct the operations of cafés, restaurants and related establishments to provide dining and catering services. Tasks include - (a) planning menus in consultation with chefs and cooks; (b) planning and organizing special functions; (c) arranging the purchasing and pricing of goods according to budget; (d) maintaining records of stock levels and financial transactions; (e) ensuring that dining, kitchen and food storage facilities comply with health regulations and are clean, functional and of suitable appearance; (f) conferring with customers to assess their satisfaction with meals and service; (g) selecting staff, setting staff work schedules, and training and supervising waiting and kitchen staff; (h) taking reservations, greeting guests and assisting in taking orders; (i) negotiating arrangements with clients and suppliers; (j) ensuring compliance with occupational health and safety regulations. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Café manager - Catering manager - Restaurant manager Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Chef - 3434 Note Operators of small cafés, restaurants and bars for whom the management and supervision of staff is not a significant component of the work are classified in Unit Groups 5120: Cooks, 5131: Waiters or 5132: Bartenders, depending on the main tasks performed.

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 287 of 427 for holding up against AI.

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63.7
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 36.3 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 36.3 = 63.7

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

52.3
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

36.7
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 41.1 · hand skill 42.9 · cramped spaces 26 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on 50+ · fiddly under 39.4 Hands-on, less fiddly work

Less fine handwork and fewer cramped spaces than a typical hands-on job. That clears one hurdle for machines. It doesn't mean machines are doing this work yet.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 52.3 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, and for work like this robots are the bigger question.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 59.5, while the average is 36.3. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 59.5

    Maintaining records of stock levels and financial transactions

    Medium
  2. 48.5

    Arranging the purchasing and pricing of goods according to budget

    Low
  3. 43.8

    Planning menus in consultation with chefs and cooks

    Low
  4. 38

    Taking reservations, greeting guests and assisting in taking orders

    Low
  5. 35.3

    Planning and organizing special functions

    Low
  6. 35

    Conferring with customers to assess their satisfaction with meals and service

    Low
  7. 27.5

    Selecting, set staff work schedules, training and supervising waiting and kitchen staff

    Low
  8. 26.5

    Ensuring compliance with occupational health and safety regulations.

    Low
  9. 25.8

    Negotiating arrangements with clients and suppliers

    Low
  10. 23.3

    Ensuring dining, kitchen and food storage facilities comply with health regulations and are clean, functional and of suitable appearance

    Very Low

10 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
69
AI does it for you
43

Helping wins by 26 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 1411

Compared with similar jobs

There are 30 jobs in the “Managers” group, averaging 63.9. This one is below that.